🪙 Money of Vietnam
A millennium of Vietnamese money on one timeline: from Thái Bình Hưng Bảo — the first coin cast in 970 — through the world-early paper money of the Hồ dynasty, the Indochinese piastre and the wartime “Uncle Hồ” notes to today's polymer đồng. Tap each era to see a photo of the REAL artefact (Wikimedia Commons, credited), with the story and fun facts.
Illustration — no artefact survives (Hồ paper money) or the money is in current circulation (reproduction of modern banknotes is restricted), so a stylised drawing is shown.
Chronology follows mainstream chronicles and State Bank records. All 17 eras show photos of real money (Wikimedia Commons PD/CC + VietnamFinance archive — credit under each image); the Hồ-dynasty paper money alone survives in no original specimen, so its image is a reconstruction print after historical descriptions. Thái Bình Hưng Bảo (970) opened nearly ten centuries of square-holed coins — and Bảo Đại thông bảo (ended 1945) closed that chapter for the whole world.